The endless loop when ucs4 is enabled has been fixed. It turned out to be some of my own bad code. The fix is in svn. Please give it a try. In the process I discovered another problem, so there will probably be a bugfix before the next release. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com